The intergenerational transmission of income mobility between mothers and their young adult daughters
The mediating role of their daughters' educational attainment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11197482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaewon Lee (0000-0001-9990-1893, Department of Social Welfare Inha University Incheon South Korea, corresponding author), Jennifer Allen (0000-0002-9827-9147, School of Social Work Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 971-983 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Policy and Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-5596 • E-ISSN: 1467-9515 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/spol.12631 |
| OpenAlex | W3043938586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This study examines whether the daughters' educational attainment mediates the intergenerational transmission of economic mobility between mothers and their young adult daughters. To create mother–daughter dyads, two data sets were combined: The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 for Children and Young Adults (NLSY79 CY). A total of 2,456 dyads were included for analysis. We used a mediation model to explore the relationship between mothers' income and their young adult daughters' income. Mothers' income was associated with their young adult daughters' educational attainment and income. The mediation model indicated partial mediation of the relationship between mothers' income and their young adult daughters' income via their young adult daughters' educational attainment. Addressing issues of income inequality among mothers may serve as a buffer against the low upward mobility across generations for their young adult daughters raised by low‐income mothers. It is imperative to provide programs and financial assistance for mothers to bolster their income and thereby their daughters' educational attainment and income in young adulthood and therefore improve economic mobility from mothers to daughters
Daughter · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Family income · Mediation · National Longitudinal Surveys · Political science · Social mobility · Sociology · Young adult · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |